Churn.



i. KING.

CHURN.

APPLICATION Hm) 00131.?917.

1,268,728. Patented June 1, 19m

JOSEPHINE KING, OF-IBON RIVER, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH [DO AUGUST J. WAFFEN, OF IRON RIVEB,.1VIICHIGAN.

CHURN'.

Specification of Letters'Patent.

"Patented June 4:, 1918.

Application filed October 31,1917. Serial No. 199,537.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPHINE KING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Iron River, in the county of Iron and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Churns; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,

clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in churns.

The object of this inventionis to improve the construction of agitators so as to render them capableof being used as a churn, egg beater, cream whipper or the l1ke and equipped with a novel heating means when the device is used as a churn to increase the temperature of the milk and facilitate the churning action of the cream or=the like.

A still further object of this invention is to provide an agitator to theframe of whlch is secured one end of a heating source and the oppositeend is provided with a novel means whereby it may be detachably secured to the bottom of the bowl and constitutes a bearing for therotating. loopsor agitators.

A still further object of this invention is to provide an agitating structure to which is secured a novel heating meanswhereby when the device is used as a churn, the heating means may be used to facilitate the increasing of the temperature of the contents to be churned thus facilitating the churning action.

A still further object of this invention is to provide a device of this character which will be simple, practical and comparatively inexpensive in construction, and one which a can be manufactured and sold at a low cost.

agitator as made in accordance with this invention,

Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of the same, applied to a bowl and ready for use,

Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional View taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2,

sistsin its construction of aframe 6 to which is slidably mounted a vertical shaft 7 for 101321131011. A bevel gear 8 1s mounted-upon the upper end of the shaft and abuts the upper end of the frame 6land retains the gear 8 against movement therefrom. A handle 9 1s secured tothe upper end of the shaft as illustrated in Fig. 2 of the drawing. A bearing housing 11 1S ;rotatably mounted about the lower enlarged end 12 of the shaft 7 and has secured theretowa bevel. gear 13. A loop or agitating device 1 1 is secured to theubearing housing 11 and depends downwardly-therefrom. A second loop or agitator 15is secured to the lower end of. the

enlarged portion 12 of the shaft andis located within the plane of the loop or agitator 14, the medial portions of these loops being rotatably connected together by a bearing pin 16.

A boss 17 is formed integrally with one side face of the frame 6 and extends laterally therefrom and has secured therein a shaft 18 on which is rotatably mounted an enlarged driving gear 19. A crank 20 is secured to the driving gear 19 and facilitates the rotation of the driving gear which in turn meshes with the gears 8 and 13 respectively to facilitate the rotation of the loops l4 and 15 in opposite directions. The above construction relates to a well known type of agitating egg heaters, churns or the like.

My improved invention or attachment relies in the securing to the agitating frame a heating source designated in its entirety by the numeral 21. This heating source comprises a hollow pipe 22 which is substantially rectangular in cross section and has its lower end closed as at 23, its upper end being fully open to facilitate the filling of the tube 22 with hot water or other suitable heated material. A stopper 24 is removwhen the device is in use.

The pipe has its lower end curved to provide a substantially semi-circular member 25 which has its lower end provided with a bearing 26 in which the pin 16 is adapted to rotate, thus permitting the loops 1& and 15 to rotate about and within the loop portion 25 of the pipe 22. The pipe is secured to the frame by a suitable U-shaped clip 26 which is secured by its web to the frame as at 27 and its arms are extended inwardly in the direction of each other to provide the clamping members 28 thus securely clamping the pipe 22 adjacent its upper end to the frame 6 by the agitator.

The under side of the closed end of the pipe 22 is provided with a depending eye 29 which is adapted to be removably arranged over a hook 30 formed integrally with the bottom wall of the receptacle 81. The bowl 21 has removably arranged over its upper end a split cover 32 which is provided with central openings 33 which openings are adapted to surround the agitating device. This cover 32 is held in position upon the upper edge of the bowl by a clamping band 34: as illustrated in Fig. 2 of the drawing.

It will be apparent that in a device constructed in accordance with this description and made in accordance with the accompanying drawings that the churning of milk may be expeditiously accomplished by increasing the temperature of the milk, due to the fact that hot water or other suitable material or liquid may be placed in the tube 22. Thus when the agitator and tube are positioned within the bowl in which the cream, milk or the like is to be churned and the cover arranged upon the bowl, the temperature of the milk or cream will be increased thus increasing its temperature so that the churning action may be reduced.

It will also be apparent that should it be desired to use the device as an agitator for whipping eggs, cream or the like, it will be only necessary to discontinue the use of the tube thereby permitting the device to be used in the ordinary manner.

Having thus described my invention what I claim is:

1. In combination, a bowl, an agitator, heating means secured to the agitator, and means carried by the heating means to remov bly secure the agitator and heating means in the bowl, as and for the purpose specified.

2. A device of the class described includ ing the combination with a bowl, a hook formed integrally with the interior of the bottom of the bowl, an agitating device, a heating pipe secured to the frame of the agitating pipe and having one end open, a bearing eye carried by the lower end of the heating pipe and adapted to be removably arranged over the hook of the bowl to facilitate the holding of the agitating device and pipe within the, bowl, as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I afiiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPHINE KING.

Witnesses:

EUGENIA J. WAFFEN, CAROLINE A. LUND,

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of latents,

Washington, D. 0. 

